Mother's Day

All you dads make sure to call your mother today. If you have children treat their mother like a queen! All you moms do whatever you want! I plan on spending the day playing with my mosaic projects. :-)

Have a happy Mother's Day!

Cats Are Good

Unless you are terribly allergic, I recommend having a cat around. A cat like ours, that is. She spends most of her time outside and visits us inside every once in a while for an hour or so. She eats in the garage and at night she is locked inside the garage, unless she fails to return from her meanderings before the door is shut for the night. The three dogs don't mind her at all, in fact, they are afraid of her.

The only thing I would like to see different about our Kneadermeier is I wish she were a bit more and better of a huntress. On occasion she's brought us the odd gopher or bird, and even a mouse. I could do without the bird "gifts" but I would love to see more dead gophers or rats.

This neighborhood isn't exactly "plagued" with rats, but we do have our share of roof rats. Unless you are looking out for them you would probably never see them. The most I've ever seen of the rats is once at dusk when I was watching the cow give birth the rats were running on the cable wires up above. And then there are the tell tale signs in the garage where I keep all the feed and tack. But then I haven't seen much of that lately either because of the traps we put out.

My husband went out to make sure Kneadermeier had food and water and shut the garage door for the night. The following is what he encountered.

Kneadermeier apparently "treed" (broomed??) the baby rat.

We put the broom down and both rat and cat scampered around the corner where we heard a bunch of rustling noises in the oleander.

The rat made good on its escape. I think it was more afraid than Kneadermeier was enthusiastic. I'm pretty sure she made her point.

I think I know one rat that will more than likely look for a safer spot to hang out.

While We Wait

Going through all my Arizona pictures is taking a little longer than I thought. Until I get them organized please enjoy the following baby pictures.

Since my daughter is now doing her internship that means the baby stays until her dad gets home from work. He usually picks her up at 4:45. I didn't want to change the time I do my visits with Gus (the Wonder Therapy Dog) which is at 4:00. That means my son has to babysit for about an hour or so until I get home or her dad gets home, whichever comes first. I don't usually like the idea of babies watching tv, but if it helps my poor teenaged son out for the short time he has to watch, then I'm okay with it. (It's only once or twice a week for less than an hour.)

Here they are watching "The Simpsons" on the computer.

Oh, and by the way, notice he finally got a haircut (click then scroll to the bottom to see him before)!

Here's a bathing beauty.

I'm loving the sudsy white 'fro!

This next photo may be a little racy! She's looking like a pin up girl.

And Miss Milk Mouth is exhausted.

Good night!

New Over The Weekend

We are back from our trip to AZ for my MIL's 80th birthday. We all had a great time with lots of good food and fun catching up with everyone. We hadn't seen any of them since last year. I also got an opportunity to sneak a quick visit to my oldest sister who lives just 17 miles away from my MIL.

I have a gazillion photos to go through to pick the best ones to show you tomorrow and/or the next day. In the meantime this nice article came out in the spring edition of the Hoffman Hospice Reflections magazine. It makes me sound so nice! (If they only knew!!)

I thought you might be able to click on the picture to enlarge it so you can read it but for some reason it isn't working today. I don't know why sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. If anyone can clue me in on that, please do so. Otherwise if you want to read it I guess you'll have to get your magnifying glass out!